JCPA-ICPA Forum Newsletter – Summer 2016NewsletterSummer 2016 Download PDF, Past Newsletters Message from the President and Editor-In-Chief Happy Summer! In this newsletter, we welcome new ICPA members, congratulate award winners for Best Article, and announce upcoming events and activities in which we hope that you can take part. Iris Geva-May Sign-Up for Our Newsletter [mc4wp_form id=”390″]Become a Member The ICPA-Forum offers memberships for individuals interested in advancing comparative policy studies. The ICPA-Forum also encourages the involvement of graduate students in the comparative policy analysis dialogue and in publications.Benefits include:FREE annual subscription to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis30% on all Taylor&Francis/ Routledge publicationsMember involvement in special Calls for PapersOnline updates on future volumes and their contents, workshops, and other activitiesNetworking opportunities through the Forum and affiliated global associates and organizationsPriority to special issues proposals, workshop organization and hosting opportunities, panel sponsorships, and partnership informationVisits/Exchanges Facilitation among International Member InstitutionsPriority to proposals of sponsored panels at partner associationsInvitations to closed Workshops and Research Symposia organized by the JCPA Further Benefits and Registration Information are available on our websiteConnect With Us Sign up for our Newsletter Connect on Linkedin Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Email us Sign up for our Newsletter Connect with us on Linkedin Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Email usThe JCPA And ICPA-Forum Welcomes a New Gold Institutional Member and New Valued Editorial Board MemberNew Editorial Board Member Koç University’s Professor Caner BakirNew International Institutional Members Gold Sponsors The Center for Globalization, Peace and Democratic Governance Department of Internaitonal Relations, Koç University, Turkey View a full list of our international institutional members and associational partners hereJCPA’S 2015 Impact Factor Increases Yet Again!Hot off the press: JCPA’s Impact Factor has increased yet again this year to 0.642 from 0.612 in 2014! Join me in congratulating the most cited authors and their articles for their excellent scholarship. Thank you to those who disseminated these articles’ contribution through JCPA citations.Top Cited Articles for Current Impact Factor, Free to AccessEugénia da Conceição-Heldt “Do Agents “Run Amok”? A Comparison of Agency Slack in the EU and US Trade Policy in the Doha Round” 4 citationsMichael W. Bauer; Christoph Knill “A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling” 3 citationsJeroen van der Waal; Willem de Koster; Wim van Oorschot “Three Worlds of Welfare Chauvinism? How Welfare Regimes Affect Support for Distributing Welfare to Immigrants in Europe” 3 citationsHolly Jarman; Katherine Truby “Traveling for Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of Patient Mobility Debates in the European Union and United States” 3 citationsJan Seifert; Ruth Carlitz; Elena Mondo “The Open Budget Index (OBI) as a Comparative Statistical Tool” 3 citations ©2016 Thomson Reuters, 2016 release of the Journal Citation ReportsCongratulations To The JCPA Best Article Award Winners For 2016! The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Best Article Adjudication Committee (David Birdsell, Chair, Ted Marmor, Betsi Beem, Emanuele Verdaini and Karen Baehler), and the Editor-in-Chief congratulate: Dr. Scott Greer, Dr. Heather Elliott, and Dr. Rebecca Oliver On the Best Article Award for 2016, “Differences that Matter: Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Comparative Social Policy Research” published in Special Issue, Vol 17; Iss. 4: “Bringing Governments Back in: Governance and Governing in Comparative Policy Analysis.” The Award will be extended at the 14th JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshop, August 2016. The authors say: “For scholars, the conclusion is that methodological nationalism obscures a great deal of important variation, and that disaggregating decentralised states reveals a much more complex and powerful set of explanations than the mere concept of fragmentation. For policy, the conclusion is that the design of intergovernmental relations, law, and finance is very important for the welfare state.”Reminder For The Upcoming ICPA-Forum Workshop At The University Of Wellington, New Zealand The 14th Annual ICPA-Forum Workshop is quickly approaching! When: August 7-9, 2016 Venue: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Where: Wellington, New Zealand Topic: “Transferable Learning: Advances in Comparative Methodologies and Practices” Click here to see the Workshop Program